Touch your walls, doors, sinks, light switches, and door handles; they were likely installed by illegal immigrants. Likely from a Latin American country if you’re in the USA (and if your home or apartment was built in the last few decades). While some Americans are concerned about ‘illegal’ labor conditions…

Prison Bars of the Mind This prison is in your mind. The feeling of FOMO that chains you to a hypothetical ideal future situation. The “what if.” FOMO is something you haven’t acquired yet, yet you’re already afraid of losing it. The roots of tradition and culture equally hold you down like wet mud. Expectation…

No more regrets, no more woulds, coulds and shoulds, we tell ourselves. Is that possible? Probable? Maybe, for short periods, but the answer isn’t to eliminate and complete our aspirational to-do list, but to accept and come to terms with it never being done. …

you just have to pay it today and if you don’t, you can be evicted from heaven or maybe you pay your rent today, to find out there is no heaven at all. sorry, no refunds.

I know, because I was one lol (and have met others). The following are thoughts some divorcees may think (some funny, some true). At the least, these are vibes some give off. I’m not single (like you), I was actually previously married. …

The dreams of my young adulthood seem like islands. Once visible and in reach, they have floated further away. I float in the open waters and busily tread, focused more on surviving than arriving at some distant island now. Sometimes the water is calm and other times it is rough, but I wonder if these islands were just hallucinations implanted in me ages ago. I wonder if we should have learned more about the rough ocean waters than the pristine islands in school.

I turn 35 on Wednesday, March 22nd (2023). As I try to reflect back on “lessons” learned for my birthday, I’ve had a lot of trouble thinking of a lesson. I think the main lesson is that old age seems as far away to me now as young age. If…

Atheism is a bigger existential threat to religion than competing religions. It’s like Coke being Islam and Christianity being Pepsi, with the two arguing what flavor is better. But atheism is like not drinking soda at all because it’s unhealthy and causes obesity and diabetes. And we mostly keep the idea to ourselves but sometimes we’re like “yea stop feeding the kids and people so much soda or religion, it’s unhealthy” and they get angry and offended, but we’re just stating facts.

*A letter from me to Craigslist support on 11/8/22 — https://sfbay.craigslist.org/contact* Hello, I’ve been a fan of your website for decades now. I’m reaching out because I know that Craigslist is a small team and will listen, and believe that Craig himself is fond of animal welfare. I know there…